The following have been collected and condensed from Jordan's comments at live performances, radio shows, and e-mailed from fans.  Comments@JordanWhiteMusic.com - last updated 6/30/08

September:

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Walking Clean:

No Promises: (from comments on 90.3 WXLV FM)

"So if you've ever gotten back together with an ex you don't need me to tell you it almost never works out.  In fact, maybe you even knew it was going to be a disaster from the start but you couldn't help yourself.  All bets are off and nothing is guaranteed, no one makes any promises, and maybe no one deserves them either.  I think these types of things are like thunderstorms; you see them coming in the distance and when they catch up to you there's nothing you can do, just take cover and wait for it to pass."

"This is about getting involved with someone who is totally wrong for you and you know it, and you can't help it.  I sort of wrote this one for myself and I never intended to release it.  I'm proud of the song, but it brings me down because I wrote it in a very bitter place.  Then one day I was in my agent's office and he was listening to it and he was like 'do you know how good this is?' - so we started playing it live and it's become one of the most requested pieces.  I get asked sometimes who the so-called 'crazy girl' is.  The person it's about doesn't really matter because the song is about how YOU deal with it, the battle between the logical and emotional sides within you." 

Nothing Again:

"This song is about memories of someone or something that you can't stop re-living, believing that if you could have done this or done that instead that you might be better off.  In a bizzare way it can give a brief sense of closure because you can lose youself in the past.  At least I can.  But then you realize what's done is done and that you can't change shit, and this is about that feeling of coming back to reality."

Jackson Browne:

A song about personal sources of creativity and the struggle to find the right words to use.  Jackson Browne, who had several hit albums in the 1970's including "Late For The Sky" (1974) and "The Pretender" (1976) is one of Jordan's biggest influences.  He said the song is about the drive to succeed paired with the loss of innocence that comes from venturing into the world to find your inspiration.

The Days I Didn't Speak:

"So if you've ever had a period of sadness or depression, I think you'll get this song.  Sometimes everything goes wrong at once and you wanna just give up.  Some people depend on their family and friends, some people go to therapy, or some people, like the guy in this song, hang around bars by themselves all the time, drinking and thinking about their life.  But when things start looking up, there's this beauty in overcoming it all, once you figure it out; whether through your actions or by turning it into something positive.  Thats what this song is about, realizing you have the power to change and strike it down like lightning."

Engine of the Ocean:

"A weird song, a song about taking the road less traveled.  The ocean tries to keep everything out of it that's not supposed to come in.  The waves just never stop coming, always pushing, and I started thinking about an 'engine' of the ocean that never shuts down.  Maybe you want someone or something that you can never have, so it's like the main line in the song- 'you keep me running like the engine of the ocean / I'd trade all this salt for some emotion.'  You can't fight the ocean, you can't make someone love you, but you're going to keep trying."

The Walmart Song: (from comments on 90.3 WXLV FM)

"This song is sort of a joke, well not really, but it's more of a fun song.  There was a time period, well I should say there is a time period, because I still do it now and then, where I would drive around in the middle of the night and go to places that are still open like Walmart, you know, really with no purpose at all.  And uh, one night I was wandering around the store and I ran into this girl I used to see, but it was some years ago and me being alone, seeing her alone too at 3 in the morning was kind of awkward.  You know that feeling when you see someone you recognize and it's really obvious to you and them, but you both pretend you didn't?  Well thats what happened, I saw her looking at DVDs or something and she caught me looking at her and it was just too weird, you know it ended badly and here we were walking around this empty store in the middle of the night and it was just bizarre.  So I went home that night and as the sun was coming up I wrote this song, which is really about how people you're close with can end up just being someone you ignore at a Walmart in the middle of the night, if you let it get to that point...."

Baby's Breath: (included on the 2005 Tsunami Relief CD release "Care Package" www.carepackagecd.com )

"This song has been misunderstood a bit, but it's understandable because of the content.  People will ask me questions like 'how could you write a song about abortion and not expect to alienate someone?'  I get that, but that's kind of the issue in a way.  The song is about a person who refuses to even MAKE a decision in the first place."

"Alright, so when something serious happens in your life you come to this time point where you gotta decide to either deal with it or not deal with it at all.  What actually happened was, my cousin was doing a class presentation in college about abortion, and it was so intense that the professor actually stopped her in the middle of it.  She was pretty upset about it, and it got me wondering how I would deal with that type of thing myself.  The thing is, the song is NOT pro or anti anything; I don't think I have the right to make a decision for someone else.  It's about someone who finds themselves struggling with consequence and is full of regret to just to be in the position of having to choose."

The Moon Goddess:

"A song about the short lived memories we hold onto and nostalgia about the person that's encapsulated by such a vision.  It's about that summer you had when you were 19 years old, where you met a person who had a tremendous impact on your life.  You thank the powers above for those warm August nights that changed you forever, those nights underneath the moon to the sound of crickets, to the sound of a passing car, and to the sound of falling in love."

A Knight In Dented Armour:

"This song is about a guy who just can't relate well to other people, either due to his unique personality or the fact that he's never sober.  I think if you lived in that fashion you would have trouble presenting your view of the world to everyone else.  They just wouldn't get it.."

The Flow:

"Alot of people have the issue with blaming other people for all their problems.  But actually for me and I think some others, we blame ourselves for everything.  Probably even stuff thats not our fault.  You feel like this big mess floundering through the days, bouncing off people and then they go and bounce a different way and then crash into someone else and it seems it's all your fault.  And this song goes into this superficiality of myself and how I was feeling at the time.  It's like saying: 'I can be easy to look at from afar but maybe you shouldn't come any closer.'  People only wait around so long for you to get your act together.  The girl that spent her summer crying because of you gets over it, and she gets married to someone else.  Maybe she forgives you.  Maybe she doesn't.  The 'flow' of things won't stop just because we want them too; time and fate are tangled.  The lyrics describe images, maybe that road you used to drive on every day that's now full of potholes; a stop light put in where there used to be none.  Physical changes are sometimes the final proof that it's never going to the the same."

"What if you had what you needed most and felt that life had embraced you, and to have it all dissapear overnight?  Where would you start over from that?  How would you?  As I was writing that song I was on vacation at the Jersey shore, and it just got me thinking about the inevibility of leaving, cause just as I had gone away on vacation, I knew in the back of my head I would just be leaving in a few days anyway.  When you think of the people you care about most in that context, as in being only temporary, things can seem so overwhelming and cruel; you must find a way to break the cycle."

Breathe:

"So this is my official 'break up song.'  You know I just had to have one.  There was this girl who told me I'd be sorry after I left her but I pretty much brushed it aside.  I thought I was above it all and nothing could touch me.  But then I began to miss her so I dug through some boxes I had and found this five or six page letter she gave me after we split up and I wanted to take a deep breath to remember it all, just one last time."

Found:

"I think on the surface it's an optimistic song, he's saying how he's 'found' and everything has changed for the better, but the thing is, he's putting so much faith in this person, it's almost obsession, and you're supposed to understand that this might not be the best idea.  Face it, if you were messed up before you met someone, you're probably gonna be messed up regardless.  You have to get yourself out of it, no one else is gonna do that for you.  Can meeting one person really turn your life around that quick?  It's how it feels to always be on the extreme side of yourself."

In Too Deep:

(From interview in Connections Magazine):

 “I wrote something about the very moment on December 31st, 1999 when it became the year 2000.  That was huge for me, and I think most everyone remembers where they were and who they were with at that exact moment, which is a very rare thing.  However, as we watched the 'ball' come down on TV, as everyone raised their glasses- the very moment the clock struck 12 midnight, I was overcome with fear.  Fear about the future, fear about my life, accepting the reality that I was getting older and we weren't kids anymore.  That experience left a lasting impression on me, and a few years later I wrote a song called In Too Deep which addresses how I was feeling at that time, a young man being catapulted into a new millennium, at the dawn of the technological revolution.  The world was changing and I think I was probably resisting a little bit.  In Too Deep is one of my favorite songs because of the way it deals with reality, and in the last verse, ultimately accepts change as being inevitable.”

"A song about being overwhelmed by the changes in your life and searching for a meaning in the differences.  It's about all the people that come and go and feeling like some of 'em left you behind.  In some ways, the song is about the responsibility that's passed onto you as you become an adult and the beauty of living the way you want, but I think for many people it turns out to be different than you expected.  A friend and I often discuss how much better off we and our peers were a few years ago, and it really bums me out.  It's about missing a wonderful time period of your life and not even realizing how wonderful it was until it already slipped away.  And now this future rushes towards you whether you like it or not and throws all of these terrifying things in your face, and we made these stupid decisions in a brighter time and now live in the shadows with the consequences."

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